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"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> writes: |
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> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 01:21:19PM +0100, lee wrote |
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>> "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> writes: |
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>> > Assuming you've already got "Content Type" "PDF file" in the list, |
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>> > click on the icon beside "emacsclient" in the "Action" column. This |
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>> > opens a dropdown menu. Click on "Use other..." and navigate to |
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>> > /usr/bin/mupdf in the file menu. |
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>> That's what I thought and tried. I don't want to use it as default |
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>> action, though, because I sometimes save PDFs. |
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> Two options... |
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> 1) In the "Action" column you can select "Always ask", and it'll always |
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> ask what you want to do. I find that to be a pain. |
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What I want is to have llpp as the default program to show PDFs and be |
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asked what I want to do, i. e. either shave or display it with the |
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default program. Currently, I'm being asked what I want to do, and if I |
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don't want to save the PDF but display it, I have to pick the program |
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with which to display it. |
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> 2) mupdf does not render straight from memory. First it saves the pdf |
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> file to /tmp/ and renders it from there. I believe the linux default is |
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> to always clean up /tmp/ at every reboot (but not during restore from |
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> hibernation). While mupdf doesn't have a "Save as" option, you can |
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> copy/move the file from /tmp/ manually, giving you the same effect as a |
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> "Save as". |
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Yes, I noticed that llpp (or mupdf) is buggy in that it doesn't clean up |
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after itself. That's enough reason for me to want something better. |
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It's really bad behaviour to leave temporary files around and can even |
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be a privacy issue. It's a hazard for the whole system because the /tmp |
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partition might fill up, and when it's not a separate partition, the |
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system may go down because the disk is full, or you'll see other issues |
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because the /tmp partition is full. |
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Having to try to figure out which file name might have been used to be |
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able to switch to the shell to copy that file to where I want it would |
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be a pita. |
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Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons |
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might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable. |
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